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Not sure this is even possible yet. I work with a lot of 3D printers and haven’t seen a metal 3D printer yet. I know you can add some metal bits to the plastic.. what you after? Plastic should be fine.

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Yeah SLS is a bit different to 3D printing, I imagine that is still expensive. There are specialist bits of kit out there now that can probably laser cut this out of a block if your looking to make it cheaper. Pop into a local machining shop and have a chat with them, most of them like a challenge so will try and help you best they can.

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Metal printing is very expensive as it is not cheap to do and a good printer is a ridiculous amount of money. It is really only for aerospace level prototyping.

As for getting it cnc made that would be ridiculously expensive for what it is. First a model would gave to be drawn and that costs. Then a machine needs setting up to make it. For something like a yoke it would be at least two sets as you would need to do one face then the other. Probably would need a fixture plate making as well so that is more cost. Everything would be at max pricing costs as it is a one off as well.

So yeah £65 would be fraction of what either other option would cost.

I am sure people think we just walk up and press a button and everything magically happens with no other effort lol.

Metal printing is very expensive as it is not cheap to do and a good printer is a ridiculous amount of money. It is really only for aerospace level prototyping.

As for getting it cnc made that would be ridiculously expensive for what it is. First a model would gave to be drawn and that costs. Then a machine needs setting up to make it. For something like a yoke it would be at least two sets as you would need to do one face then the other. Probably would need a fixture plate making as well so that is more cost. Everything would be at max pricing costs as it is a one off as well.

So yeah £65 would be fraction of what either other option would cost.

I am sure people think we just walk up and press a button and everything magically happens with no other effort lol.

Yeah I should have said - easier and cheaper to do if like me you have experience in 3D modelling for CNC cutouts (which means no chambers folks!) and don’t have to pay someone to create the however many layers it needs to create each individual model for each part needed for the single component.